Renewing his attack on the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, Raj Thackeray, on Saturday accused the Sharad Pawar-led party of "raping" Maharashtra for the past 14 years. "The NCP is holding all the crucial departments, home, irrigation, power and roads since 14 years. But what have they done so far? The NCP has raped the state," Thackeray said at a public rally in Jalna, 452 kilometre to the east of Mumbai, in the parched Marathwada region.
Referring to the drought which has afflicted several parts of the state, Thacekray squarely blamed the NCP and the party's deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar for the current scenario.

"The drought has hit 72% of the state. With another three months of summer to go the situation can well be imagined. In all these years, as many as 336 irrigation projects have been left incomplete and they need Rs. 12,000 crore to complete. But, what are they doing?" he asked.

He alleged that if the projects are completed, then money will stop coming from the contractors.

Thackeray said that at least four big contractors became affluent overnight and demanded a probe into their assets.

When the state is confronted with such a severe drought, there is no need to hold the IPL matches in Maharashtra, he said.

Naming certain NCP and Bharatiya Janata Party legislators and parliamentarians, Thackeray accused them of being hand-in-glove in looting the state: "Why are the BJP-Shiv Sena silent in the face of such a serious drought reeling across the state?"

Pointing out that he was accused by the NCP of using abusive language, but the suffering people of the state are abusing it (NCP) even more. "I shall not be polite towards those who have been doing otherwise (looting) the state," he declared.

Shifting to election gear, Thackeray said that now the Congress-NCP has just one and half years left: "After my government comes to power, then where will Ajit Pawar go? Let them slap any number of cases against MNS activists, after we come to power, we shall withdraw all of them (cases)," he assured.

This was Thackeray's first and keenly watched public rally after his Aurangabad rally last Tuesday when his convoy was attacked allegedly by NCP workers. It direct fallout was MNS' retaliatory attacks on NCP offices in over a dozen parts of the state including Mumbai.

Thackeray had promised to "give a fitting reply" to the NCP at Saturday's rally and said he would now visit Pune - the Pawar family bastion March 7, followed by a tour of Vidarbha starting March 16.

Meanwhile, NCP state spokesperson Nawab Malik claimed that last week, the MNS had bought a used car for Rs.35,000 and then burnt it, according to police investigations.

"Same type stunt of stone-throwing on its leader's car by the (MNS) party workers and then blame NCP with the motive of attracting media and public attention. This is the real face of MNS," Malik said in a statement.

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he didnt utter a single word against congress infact he defended them saying they do not have the important portfolios which ncp has..

now you know whos his daddy..

That is a hallmark of a exemplary strategist. He does not want to make too many enemies at the same time. Here is his strategy I guess.

1) He knows that he cannot defeat Shiv Sena in Mumbai and Thane no matter how much he tries. The recent municipal results is proof.

2) He however can increase his MLA count from 13 currently to 35 + by targeting territory which is virgin to the Thackeray clan, which is Western Maharashtra. This area is looking for a leadership change especially Pune, Solapur and Kolhapur districts.

3) By bad mouthing NCP what he can achieve is that all those bhaiyyas of Mumbai who hate MNS more than they hate Pakistan will suddenly look towards NCP with a lot of sympathy. This will ensure that the Bhaiyya vote is split in Mumbai with a lot of it going to NCP than only to the Kangrace. This will help SS defeating both Kangrace and NCP in Mumbai.

4) With his muted criticism of the Kangrace, the bhaiyyas are confused now. They think that Kangrace is subtly financing MNS. Come to think of it, he isn't criticising Shiv Sena too!

All in all I think he wants a bigger share in the pie in the obvious SS-BJP-MNS-RPI alliance.

That is a hallmark of a exemplary strategist. He does not want to make too many enemies at the same time. Here is his strategy I guess.

1) He knows that he cannot defeat Shiv Sena in Mumbai and Thane no matter how much he tries. The recent municipal results is proof.

2) He however can increase his MLA count from 13 currently to 35 + by targeting territory which is virgin to the Thackeray clan, which is Western Maharashtra. This area is looking for a leadership change especially Pune, Solapur and Kolhapur districts.

3) By bad mouthing NCP what he can achieve is that all those bhaiyyas of Mumbai who hate MNS more than they hate Pakistan will suddenly look towards NCP with a lot of sympathy. This will ensure that the Bhaiyya vote is split in Mumbai with a lot of it going to NCP than only to the Kangrace. This will help SS defeating both Kangrace and NCP in Mumbai.

4) With his muted criticism of the Kangrace, the bhaiyyas are confused now. They think that Kangrace is subtly financing MNS. Come to think of it, he isn't criticising Shiv Sena too!

All in all I think he wants a bigger share in the pie in the obvious SS-BJP-MNS-RPI alliance.

he has managed to rob 6 municipal seats from dadar which is SS HQ.so thats a low blow for SS.he will keep cutting into SS votebank anyways.Now that Uddhav seems a little favourable about partnering with MNS,Raj knows he has the leverage.

I like the way he screws up with ajit pawar because ajit pawar is one piece of ballzless shit and needs to be insulted as much as one can,but it is clear that raj has been given immunity from sonia and co just like indira used balasaheb as a puppet to kill the leftist dominance from south mumbai back in the 70s.

During the second world war, initial german success was due to blitkrieg operation, especially due to general von rundested and general rommel's ghost division of panzers. But later at the end of the the war, the allied army, especially third army of general george patton has developed anti blitkrieg operation very successfully.

Like wise Raj's blitkrieg is of old style, and NCP has already developed its own anti- blitkrieg operations

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